The new Fellows were honored during the Awards of Excellence banquet at IFMA''s World Workplace 2008 Conference & Expo.

ASHES re-elects CermignanoThe board of directors of the American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES) have re-elected Tina Cermignano as society president for 2009.

Cermignano is operations manager for quality and environmental services at Children''s Hospital of Philadelphia and has been an ASHES member for 21 years.

The board also elected Michael Bailey, director of environmental services at the Greenville Hospital System, Greenville, SC, and Gary L. Dolan, director of environmental services at The Village at Penn State, State College, PA, to three-year terms on the board.

ISSA/INTERCLEAN® showed growthJanSan trade association ISSA has announced that the number of buyer firms and buyer-firm attendees at the recent ISSA/INTERCLEAN convention and trade show rose by double digits compared to last year.

The number of buyer firms — distributors, building service contractors (BSCs), and in-house service providers (ISPs) — at the show was up 18 percent over last year, and the number of buyer-firm attendees was up 11 percent.

Overall, 16,233 people registered for the event at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

BSCAI files for bankruptcyBuilding Service Contractors Association International (BSCAI), the major trade association for building service contractors, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will seek to reorganize without the lease on its former headquarters.

After BSCAI contracted with Chicago-based association management firm Smith Bucklin in January 2007, it vacated its offices in Fairfax, VA.

But, BSCAI was unable to negotiate or sub-lease the Fairfax offices on acceptable terms, and the lease had become "debilitating," while providing no benefit to BSCAI members.

The bankruptcy filing will have no effect on BSCAI programs, including its convention and trade show scheduled for March 6 to 9 in Chicago.